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re: What work from home has ruined?
Posted on 5/15/24 at 1:08 pm to BabyTac
Posted on 5/15/24 at 1:08 pm to BabyTac
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Nobody has work relationships anymore.
Kind of lame if the only way you know how to make friends is at a building owned by your employer.
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‘Lunch with the boys’ is dead. No more killing time with the boys while talking about the new hot secretary over lunch.
Most people in offices pre-covid were eating at their desks, leaving the building to be by themselves, or meeting with people they actually cared about.
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Social life and more importantly social skills are vanishing. No more walking down the hall or having a kitchen conversation with others to collaborate unplanned.
This has more to do with the fact that socialization in the cohort you’re referring to was learned as a group of teens sitting in a room together while not saying a word to each other with faces down in smartphones. WFH didn’t do this.
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Most marriages used to be between people who met at work.
This has never been true at any point in history. Not sure where you’re getting that from.
A lot of office romances end in a weird situation where you have to figure out how to continue to be professionals who were having sex but have now broken up for a reason that would have normally caused you to never want to see that person again.
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Work/social events. Ping pong tourneys, trivia, potlucks.
You can easily arrange this with WFH.
No one does though. Wanna know why? Because it’s just a way to cope with having to be in an office 8-12 hours a day. No need for that if you’re not there.
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I could go on and on, but more important than that is what is happening to people that all of a sudden have zero structure:
I’ll give you this one. When you work from home you must create your own structure. You need a dedicated space. You need to groom and get dressed. You need set work hours where your colleagues know they can reach you. You need proper equipment and a desk.
However, what you’re saying isn’t a failing of WFH as a concept…it’s simply people failing to do what’s necessary to WFH. There’s a difference.
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